This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. I'm so glad that you found us today and whether you're at home or in your car.

We're so glad that you're here and we pray that God will give you hope in times of difficulty.

Rick is taking us through the book of Daniel and that's so we'll be equipped to handle whatever curveball life throws at us, even the most difficult trials.

So let's join Rick with part one of a message called When You're Asked to Do the Impossible.

You ever had a boss or a parent or a friend or somebody say, I need you to do this for me? And you go, there's no way I can get this done. I don't have the time. I don't have the money. I don't have the background. I don't have the talent. I don't have the connections. Your boss walks in and says, I need this by Tuesday. And you go, yeah, in the next life. Many times in your life you'll be faced with an impossible situation. What do you do in that

situation? I get the title from today's message from Daniel chapter 2, verse 10 and 11, where the

advisors of this Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, that we've been looking at for several weeks,

they say to him, nobody can do what you ask. What you're asking is impossible. What do you do when you're asked

to do the impossible? And I told you in previous message in this theory that God always tests you before he blesses you.

He tests you with stress before he trusts you with success.

Before God gives you success, blessing, influence, power, whatever he wants to give you,

he first sees, are you ready to handle it?

He tests you with stress before he trusts you with success. And in this story of Daniel, we're looking at nine major

tests in his life. These are common tests that you're going to go through. He's already gone through

three of them. Each one he passed. Every time Daniel passes the test, he gets promoted.

Remember he starts out as a 15-year-old prisoner of war in a foreign nation, and by the

time he's 85, 70 years later, he's the second most important man in the entire empire,

and the Babylonian Empire was the number one empire in the world at that time.

Enormous power, enormous influence.

And he gets promoted every time he passes a test.

And this is the test of when you're asked to do the impossible.

Now the story starts out in chapter two of Daniel and it goes like this.

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